Hunger Quotes - Page 5

• Hunger is the best seasoning.

  Ken Follett

  Seasoning

  Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.58, Penguin

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• The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you trust the God who made human bodies, or will you seek your own way? (Deuteronomy 8:1-3)

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Faith, Needs, Body

  Charles R. Swindoll (2009). “Jesus: The Greatest Life of All”, p.65, Thomas Nelson

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• I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Children, Growing Up, Pain

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.11, Delacorte Press

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• Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Not only do the followers of Jesus renounce their rights, they renounce their own righteousness too. They get no praise for their achievements or sacrifices. They cannot have righteous– ness except by hungering and thirsting for it (this applies equally to their own righteousness and to the righteousness of God on earth ), always they look forward to the future righteousness of God, but they cannot establish it for themselves. Those who follow Jesus grow hungry and thirsty on the way.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Blessed, Sacrifice

  "The Cost of Discipleship".

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• Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour !

  Suzanne Collins

  Doing Me, Favour, Dies

  Suzanne Collins (2012). “The Hunger Games”, p.235, Scholastic

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• I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and hunger on Earth. But, look, I'm a scientist who sees inspiration as the ultimate tool for doing good. When you use money to fight poverty, it can be of great value, but too often, you're working at the margins. When you're putting people on the moon, you're inspiring all of us to achieve the maximum of human potential, which is how our greatest problems will eventually be solved. Give yourself permission to dream.

  Randy Pausch

  Dream, Inspiration, Fighting

  "The Last Lecture".

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• Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Beautiful, Flower, Men

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• There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle.

  Pablo Neruda

  Grief, Miracle, Ruins

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.25, Macmillan

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• I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone’s affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Needs, Affection

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• I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Men, Doe

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.92, Penguin

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• Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts, and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency?

  Jeet Thayil

  Cutting, Mind, Saint

  "Narcopolis". Book by Jeet Thayil, 2012.

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• I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

  Evelyn Waugh

  People, Young, Knows

  EVELYN WAUGH (1958). “VILE BODIES & BLACK MISCHIEF”

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• I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Memories, Believe, Hypocrite

  Mohsin Hamid (2000). “Moth Smoke”, p.203, Penguin Books India

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• All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you get to rule Narnia for another hundred years. So maybe I die, and winter goes on. Maybe the hunger and the darkness and the fear never end. But as long as the children believe in me, I know that Aslan will live again. I, the Great Lion, Son of The Emperor Over The Sea, will live again and -- aaaaauugh!!

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Children, Believe

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• Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter?
  
  Hannibal Lecter: Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

  Thomas Harris

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "Fictional characters: Allegra Pazzi, Hannibal Lecter". "Hannibal", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• His kisses were gifts. He kissed with everything he had, with power and passion and hunger and love. He held nothing back, giving everything, exposing everything.

  Sylvia Day

  Passion, Kissing, Giving

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.408, Penguin

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• There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Escaping, Doors

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• Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.

  Margaret Atwood

  Sadness, Two, Together

  Margaret Atwood (2010). “The Year Of The Flood”, p.211, Hachette UK

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• The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.

  Pema Chodron

  Believe, Long, Suffering

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Teacher, Stars

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• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  Donald Miller

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Smell, Apples

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's no time to be modest. Reason will not work here. Without warning, I kiss Kartik. His lips, pressed firmly against mine, are a surprise. They are warm, light as breath, firm as the give of a peach against my mouth. A scent like scorched cinnamon hangs in the air, but I'm not falling into any vision. It's his smell in me. A smell that makes my stomach drop through my feet. A smell that pushes all thought out of my head and replaces it with an overpowering hunger for more.

  Libba Bray

  Fall, Kissing, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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